i love the indieweb community for its idealism, but on the flip side they really push a lot of specs & standards without accompanying implementations
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i can, of course, add some classes to my homepage and make my name on macwright.org an h-card, but i'm really struggling to understand why i'd do that, given that there are almost no h-card consumers.
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Great question! There are definitely a bunch of specs, but many of them attempt to solve some issue among several implementations before they become a spec. As far as Microformats, the IndieWeb community uses it a lot because it enables one of the… eddiehinkle.com/2018/09/24/2…
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There’s a great article about Webmentions on A List Apart, if you haven’t read it: alistapart.com/article/webme… (eddiehinkle.com/2018/09/24/2…)
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i'm kind of sold on webmention - been silently using webmention.io for a while, but the volume hasn't convinced me to display the results onsite. i'm not sure that it relies on h-card/entry, though, and the many many schema.org schemas don't have consumers
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Replying to @tmcw @EddieHinkle
Wait were you referring to schema.org vocabs in your comment about pushing specs that don’t have implementations? Because yeah I agree completely on that front.

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Replying to @aaronpk @EddieHinkle
but even something like h-card - it predates the webmention spec by a solid decade, but i struggle to find any implementation or usecase served that isn't just webmentions
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That’s tricky. hCard (Microformats 1) was/is indexed by Google. The Webmention spec (published in 2017) was published after years of implementations working in the wild. Before Webmention existed, h-card/h-entry was used with Pingback to send comments back and forth.